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DESERT WASTES.
Rocky outcroppings incise a dreary, dusty landscape. Sparse sands blow across the ground. Offscreen, we are approached by tired, booted footfalls. Less distinct is the sound of a rapidly approaching insect, but it cuts across the channels to intercept those footfalls. A man grunts, more out of surprise than pain, and we hear his blood spilling in the sand. A mantis rears its head into view, its compound eyes somehow focusing in on us.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Armageddon_login.png)
Your entries:
- no lyrics (chanting is ok)
- short, preferably less than 2 minutes (exceptions allowed)
- appropriately themed
- multiple entries are fine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMt1ILTzCac (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMt1ILTzCac)
(of course)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D19sADE2Oc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D19sADE2Oc)
One and done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW3pZjmS3rg
This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcInBA4FlU8)
Something like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkKccjXcfo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkKccjXcfo)
Quote from: spicemustflow on April 09, 2014, 05:04:52 PM
This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcInBA4FlU8)
Yes, good mood.
Too long, but the back half of the song might fit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSJYebq2_1c
really though I'm just waiting for Delirium to come in here with 99999 awesome ideas
There's only one song that would fit well and it's this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bo0ZEMJkuI
Some excellent entries but THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Oxkgsex8M)is the one that captures Armageddon best. Sun and sand, weirdos and F-Me PCs, combat and celebrations it has it all! (There is even a cameo from a black robe!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVgX-qAm5DA
Edit: Well my PCs anyway.
I vote that Game of Thrones a capella Minecraft did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwxYiVXYyVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-mDTdeKR8
... Or the theme music from any Stanley Kubrick movie. I listen to tons of instrumental and classical music, but those songs tend to be much longer than 2 minutes.
Alternatively: Just like, 3.30 minute loop of the Wilhelm scream, with the T'zai Byn sigil superimposed over the shield wall.
I have two I associate with LeArm.
Le Serious (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxQu96gWP10)
Le n'est pas serious (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3kkVGuiKFI)
This one here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixv_jRI6VqY)
No lyrics? Really?
Because like, "Bring on the Night" would be fantastic. SINCE THAT IS THE ONLY TIME I CAN PLAY.
Rules are meant to be broken... this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1mEMiNPHQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1mEMiNPHQ)
Chanting? Somebody should chant this:
Quote from: http://tinyurl.com/pkm4k2vQuid habet amplius homo de universo labore suo, quo laborat sub sole?
Generatio præterit, et generatio advenit: terra autem in æternum stat.
Non est priorum memoria: sed nec eorum quidem, quæ postea futura sunt, erit recordatio apud eos, qui futuri sunt in novissimo.
Cumque me convertissem ad universa opera, quæ fecerant manus meæ, et ad labores, in quibus frustra sudaveram, vidi in omnibus vanitatem et afflictionem animi, et nihil permanere sub sole.
Far From Any Road (http://open.spotify.com/track/5cq7IxxCTwE1c58ckgELsc) might fit the mood you describe in the OP.
It really depends on what mood you're trying to set when you log in. Dusty desert loner? Hardcore combat army guy? Stealthy assassin?
Those things are all important considerations.
Quote from: boog on April 10, 2014, 12:00:46 AM
No lyrics? Really?
Because like, "Bring on the Night" would be fantastic. SINCE THAT IS THE ONLY TIME I CAN PLAY.
I would have thought "In The Heat of the Night" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnVkI1QV7hg#aid=P8kTotTx5OQ) is when you loose control boog? Besides Sandra is a lot more fashionable than Sting!
Two Steps From Hell - Dark Ages (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl7i_YxDl-8)
Hear that hiss at the start of the song? That's totally your mantis.
If you're making some sort of Armageddon visual trailer thing (based on your other posts and this one, you should!), you should totally check out other Two Steps From Hell tracks to set it to, too.
We might have fun with this, but IRE muds actually do this (have login title theme songs. They're actually pretty awesome).
If the login screen was for a narcissistic rogue elkran showing up in the Gaj:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOubzHCUt48&feature=kp
(tempted to try that some time)
Saladin's Theme - Civilization IV Soundtrack
Quite a bit less intense than some of the other suggestions, but I think it gets the traveling through the desert part right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0GBt8oL9H4
It should vary depending on where you're playing.
Allanak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HORkT4a2MhQ) (for obvious reasons)
Tuluk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM) (I feel that this one captures the 'hidden' dark side of Tuluk pretty well)
Luirs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex8WxTiScPw&feature=youtu.be&t=1m45s) (Yeah, we'll skip the intro)
Tan Muark (http://youtu.be/jTQIogLBFBs?t=23s) (not too sure about this one, but it seems to go well given recent events)
Red Storm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WhhSBgd3KI&feature=youtu.be&t=38s) (:D)
Some awesome entries! :) Here's another couple that bend the rules a bit:
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Showdown/2KVkh3?src=5 (http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Showdown/2KVkh3?src=5)
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Quake+Theme/3LnuWk?src=5 (http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Quake+Theme/3LnuWk?src=5)
Rahnevyn, I have no video editing or artistic skills, but I might take a stab at it. Barring the professional voice acting and the cartoon at the end, I wonder if something like this would be do-able.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EMujLjCTw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EMujLjCTw)
Thread necromancy. Anything dune-related is going to go well with Arm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4SwFhfNh1w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4SwFhfNh1w)
Okay, yeah. Breaking Bad theme song all the way. Perfect desert feel crossed with the overall badassery of the actual theme song itself. You know, now that it comes to my mind... You know those random soundtracks that come off in the game Minecraft while you play and some other games? Why can't we have something like that added into Arm? Like once every 10-20 minutes a random song/soundtrack will come up.
uh, you guys, the answer is clearly sandstorm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Rgna7XgqM
Or if you still really love the Western themed music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkGqLl-lwbc
This song fits the bleakness really, really well. It's almost not a song. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci6TPZ_NDC8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmq1cpcglQ
Haha these are awesome/hilarious so far ;
I'll have to come back. Two pistols and a frontier is pretty rad though.
Just to play at the login screen?
How about some Enya? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38AeAeDuhDI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixv_jRI6VqY
Always thought this was perfect.
Really though you could pick and choose anything Mark Morgan.
Oh, your rules. Heh.
This has always invoked Serious Business Arm for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk8W3ysnB7M
(what I listen to to get in the mood for the harsh and ridiculousness nature of Zalanthas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETfiUYij5UE)
Quote from: MeTekillot on December 09, 2014, 11:36:14 PM
This song fits the bleakness really, really well. It's almost not a song. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci6TPZ_NDC8)
Really liking this one.
Quote from: deathkamon on December 09, 2014, 08:57:55 PM
Okay, yeah. Breaking Bad theme song all the way. Perfect desert feel crossed with the overall badassery of the actual theme song itself. You know, now that it comes to my mind... You know those random soundtracks that come off in the game Minecraft while you play and some other games? Why can't we have something like that added into Arm? Like once every 10-20 minutes a random song/soundtrack will come up.
I think many modern clients have sound triggers and the ability to talk to other applications, so you could probably kit out your client to do exactly this. Or create a youtube video or channel featuring your favorite ambient tracks for Tuluk or Red Storm or wherever for people to play in another window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPYOcgde98 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPYOcgde98)
Kyuss - Jumbo Blimp Jumbo: http://youtu.be/WCch21tcgaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnJCRyCsM4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnJCRyCsM4)
For some reason this movie is very Zalanthas to me. The music also kinda reminds me of the MIDI soundtrack to Dark Sun: Shattered Lands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ud7eWUazLo&list=PL3HBv-4pG0xsNRl9VQC9BUkU8jp1HqU4I&index=4
Don't think this is the correct name of the song, but yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IedIBq3riDA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IedIBq3riDA)
Fantastic Planet is hilarious. I remember watching it at a sleepover with my friend when I was 12, who used to sneak away tablespoons of his dad's vodka every few days, and we got drunk. So that movie is forever tied to my first experience with vodka. ;D
I don't know if it feels Zalanthan to me, though ... unless we're talking about a skellebaine addict, who admittedly, is a concept I want to try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZLtzchX32c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pPQnhhUqtU
I don't know if I want to play it straight or deliberately and utterly troll this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDtJUSYoLDE
edited to a better link
Alright, I've just found this album while searching around, and also I heard it's music playing in a flash game I've gotten into. It's an amazing Zalanthan soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK8LhsK9qlc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK8LhsK9qlc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvaWBVS59XY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvaWBVS59XY)
I love the opening theme for Kenshi.
To me it speaks of desperation, with only the smallest amount of hope in the suspended chords.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUCzFFrMM9I
Absolutely, 100 percent this.
You can't not watch this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hrhBZJ98
Apologies for double-posting, but this is the video I meant to actually post, though they're both quite fitting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULpvm0m_ZZU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULpvm0m_ZZU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFy7xuN6gvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTa1jHk1Lxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdCoJe2lfEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6pXUXbZ6gA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWbFm7rBX-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgdrzdgjaTU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoYqp9mlKrU
https://youtu.be/BSsfjHCFosw
I've been meaning to ask about this because I see a lot of people doing it on the characters thread too, when it is a youtu.be/ link instead of youtube.com/watch?v=
does it show for you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7bQ_rtqZs
Allanak:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9zRQijCN5w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht1ZChKF4Ek